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According to reports of Northern Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah, Saiduka or Sai'i [1] (sometimes erroneously referred to as Say-do-carah or Saiekare [2] after a term said to be used by the Si-Te-Cah to refer to another group) were a legendary tribe who the Northern Paiutes fought a war with and eventually wiped out or drove away from the area, with the final battle having taken place at ...
Common elements are the principle of an all-embracing, universal and omniscient Great Spirit, a connection to the Earth and its landscapes, a belief in a parallel world in the sky (sometimes also underground and/or below the water), diverse creation narratives, visits to the 'land of the dead', and collective memories of ancient sacred ...
The Choctaw tell the following creation story of their coming to this land, and how Nanih Waiya Mound, built of earthwork by ancestors, came to be. Two brothers, Chata and Chicksah. After travelling for a mind-bogglingly long time, they finally came to a place where the pole stood upright.
Pages in category "Native American giants" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A-senee-ki-wakw;
A legend passed down through generations of American Indians was of 'yellow-haired giants' who had briefly settled in Tennessee, then moved to Kentucky and then Southern Indiana, also involving the area of Southern Ohio, all of which became known as "The Dark and Forbidden Land", specifically the area of "Devil's Backbone" on the Ohio River.
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
What is so special about Sequoia National Park? Sequoia protects some of the largest trees in the world and a wide array of habitats. “I would say the most special feature is that you enter at ...
• Land of the Risi (a mythical location) • Greenland • Helluland (Baffin Island) • Markland (the Labrador Peninsula) • Land of the Skræling (location undetermined) • Promontory of Vinland (the Great Northern Peninsula) For centuries, it remained unclear whether the Icelandic stories represented real voyages by the Norse to North ...